1. Printmaking

2. Printmaking
Printmaking is the act of creating a work of art with the intention of making reproductions of it.
There are many different types of printmaking, including etching, block-cutting, and screen printing.

3. Techniques and Tools
Printmaking can be done in a variety of ways: typically a plate or block has a design etched onto it, and then ink is applied to the block.
Paper is then pressed onto the inked block to make a negative (reverse) copy of the image.

4. Editions
A series of prints of the same plate is called an edition. The edition number usually signifies the number of the print, and the number of prints overall from a particular plate.
Once you have reached the overall limit, it is morally wrong to EVER print from that plate again without making some sort of adjustment to it… adding lines, changing colors, etc.

5. Prints
At the bottom of a print, information about it is usually written in pencil.
Typical print information includes the edition number, title of the print, and signature from the artist, to be sure it is genuine.

6. History of Printmaking
Printmaking began in China after paper was invented in about 105 CE.
Since the invention of the Printing Press, printmaking has been an inexpensive and effective way for artists to make a living… it gave rise to the first “commercial artists.”
Tomb rubbing, China, 2nd. C. CE

7. In Korea and Japan in the 8th c. (700 CE-800CE)
There were great advances in printmaking –
Creation of Buddhist texts

8. The first book .. Where do you think it was made?
From the Diamond Sutra, 868 CE

9. Moveable Type
Koreans invented moveable type in 1377 century – pieces of type are cast of bronze: This book was called the JIKJI
Johannes Gutenberg was credited with inventing moveable type in Europe in 1438

10. Europe
In 1400, over six centuries after it was introduced in Asia, Europeans begin woodblock printing
The first edition ever printed in Europe was a set of playing cards.

11. Gutenberg Bible 1438

12. So, when does printing become a method for making ART????
In the 15th and 16th centuries

13. Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was the first European to realize the benefit to printmaking… one block could yield several hundred prints that could be sold at a nice price.
In effect, he became the first commercial artist.

14. Dürer’s “Rhinoceros”

15. Dürer’s “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”

16. Rembrandt
The Three
Crosses, 1653,
Intaglio
Printmaking

17. Rembrandt,
Self-portrait
With a cap,
1630

18. Japanese Printmaking, 19th Century
Some of the best prints ever were made by Japanese printmakers in this era
The most famous of all Japanese printmakers were Hokusai and Hiroshige

19. Ukiyo-e (19th centure Japanese Printmaking
Hokusai, Mount Fuji, 1830

20. Hokusai
Mount Fuji, 1834

21. Hokusai

22. Hiroshige, View of Shrine, 1854

23. Hiroshige, Bamboo Yards, 1857

24. Hiroshige, Rice Fields, 1857

25. 19th century European Prints
Delacroix, Tiger,1829

26. 19th Century European Prints
John Everett Millais, 1870’s

27. 19th Century American Prints
Whistler,
Nocturne,
19th Century American Prints

28. And in the 20th Century …
Anything goes!

29. Picasso Prints
Lithograph

30. Picasso linoprints

31. George Grosz

32. Edward Hopper
Night, 1936

33. Andy Warhol
Campbell’s Soup Can,
Screenprint, 1968

34. Andy Warhol
Marilyn, 1967, Screenprint

35. So many possibilities
Claude Flight, Speed, 1927

36. So many possibilities
Romare Bearden, The Train 1975

37. So many possibilities
Blair Fornwald, Lads, 2010

38. So many possibilities
Bob Blackburn, Girl, 1980